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CPAN: $677 Million of Perl

Posted by michael on from the wooden-nickel dept.

Adam K writes "It had to happen eventually. CPAN has finally gotten the sloccount treatment, and the results are interesting. At 15.4 million lines of code, CPAN is starting to approach the size of the entire Redhat 6.2 distribution mentioned in David Wheeler's original paper. Could this help explain perl's relatively low position in the SourceForge.net language numbers?"

2 of 277 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Golf? by decepetion · · Score: 1, Redundant

    you mean perl -e 'print "Cpan\n"' THAT is a one-liner

  2. Re:Golf? by CoolQ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bah, I can do it in a zero liner with your method of line counting:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -eshell

    __END__

    And I have much more functionality too!